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G6HJP > IRLP 14.02.05 23:56l 76 Lines 3166 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: G6HJP@GB7PFD.#48.GBR.EU
To : IRLP@WW
>From: KB2VXA@WT3V.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
>To : IRLP@WW
>
>Hi Andrew and readers,
>
>Hmmm, it would be nice to sign your name and save me the trouble of a
>callsign lookup. (;->)
>
>It's a well known fact I am dead set against that fake radio stuff and
>honestly I hate the term "Internet Radio" for the same reason, it's
>simply not radio. I have tried it all out and was immediately bored stiff
>so that's that, at least they can't say I shoot it down out of hand.
>
>As for "working DX" with it, what a sick joke! Woud you belive one
>station asked if I would QSL? Yeah, I politely told him to request one
>from the control op of the repeater since that's as far as his signal
>got. I hate to think of how I would have been polite about it if he was
>using a computer and not any radio at all. (;->) Nah, it's in no way DX
>BUT it just might be a kick for some who like to rag chew on a repeater
>with more than the locals. Some like it, some don't, and then some are
>terribly confused. Obviously I'm one who would rather fight it out on HF
>or VHF under open band conditions, there's nothing like a challenge.
>There is none in what amounts to a telephone conversation, but that's me.
>Oh, I have some mind boggling 6M contacts logged and one QSL that proves
>it's truely "the magic band" rivaling HF at times. Hmmm, while the crowd
>was fighting poor band conditions on HF trying to work the DXpedition
>that opened Ninevut (spelling?) I worked them on 6 5/9 both ways. My
>major gripe is the buggers never QSLed. (;->)
>
>Ah yes, like the pld Pams radio spot said, "Who listens to radio, only
>350 million people, that's all." (Sorry if you weren't tuned to MW-AM
>radio in the US during the '60s, hi.)
>
>73 de Warren, KB2VXA@WT3V.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
>Powered by JCP&L atomic energy.
>
>E-MAIL: kb2vxa@swissinfo.org
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>**************************************
>Preserve the integrity of our network.
>Stop Internet forwarding, use RADIO!
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>Message timed by NIST: 23:16 on 2005-Feb-12 GMT
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>
While I can see Warrens point of view and totally agree with the fact that
what he has described is not Rdaio in pure sense of the word, but I have to
wonder
how many people would be able to read his bulletin id it was not for the
Internet that had forwarded it around the world in such a short time.
I can also see his point that fighting the airwaves and trying to get a
contact on HF is great fun when one has the time and money to put into it,
but this is a amateur Bulletin system and as such should be able to send
bulls around the world for all to read. This canot always be done by radio
alone, after all bulletins expire after a certain time and if they are
delayed too long at a BBS, they may not go any further, this is why the
Interent and also Modem Telnet forwarding comes in.
Warren, you are correct, but don't cry 'wolf' at the internet, after all it
did allow me to reply to your message.
I have three radios ports here, but they certainly would not reach over to
your area of the world.
Best to you.
Peter, Sysop - G6HJP @ GB7PFD.#48.GBR.EU
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